Improvement in plows



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ADAMS, OF LONG ISLAND, KANSAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLOWS-c Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.160,989, dated March 23, 1875; application tiled February 1, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ADAMS, a resident of Long Island, Phillipscounty, State of Kansas, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Prairie Breaking- Plows, of which the following,reference being had to the accompanying drawing, is a full, clear, andexact description.

The object of my invention is to attach a shear cutting-knife to thesteel plow-share, so

that the same may cut the roots of the sod,

calling on the mold -board to merely turn it over.

Figure 1 is a top of my invention as attached to the ordinary steelplow-share.

In my invention, A is the plow-share, and B my attachment, theattachment running out at right angles from the point of the plow, andon a line parallel with said point, extend- WILLIAM ADAMS. Witnesses:

L. L. HOLBROOK, O. W. COLT.

